JP Merz Professorial Lecturer Performing Arts
- Degrees
- DMA, Composition, University of Southern California
MM, Composition & Music Tech, University of Colorado Boulder
BM, Composition & Music Theory, Lawrence University - Bio
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Dr. JP Merz聽is a composer, sound artist, and educator. His work, both instrumental and electronic, interrogates the materiality of sound through experimental聽uses of technology鈥攆rom networked聽algorithms to spectral analysis to AI. Centering environmental and social justice, his recent projects have reflected on systemic violence, investigating mass shootings, the climate crisis, and biodiversity loss.聽
Merz's music has been performed by yMusic, Altius Quartet, Playground Ensemble, Sound of Ceres, and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, as well as by members of Wild Up and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. His work has been featured by and played in Carnegie Hall, New Music Gathering, San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Abrons Arts Center, ACRE gallery, VICE鈥檚 Creator鈥檚 Project, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and聽I Care if You Listen.
He is a recipient of New Music 猫咪社区appA鈥檚 Creator Development Fund, the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 猫咪社区app Composers Forum鈥檚 JFund for New Music, and the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award, as well as special distinction for the Rudolf Nissim Prize. As he often works across disciplines, his collaborators include dancers, engineers, researchers, algorithms, and robots.
JP holds a doctorate (DMA) in composition from the University of Southern California and teaches theory, composition, and improvisation at 猫咪社区app University, previously teaching at the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Teaching
Summer 2024
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PERF-110 Understanding Music
Fall 2024
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M猫咪社区app-021 Private Instrument Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-022 Private Instrument Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-121 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-122 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-791 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-792 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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PERF-110 Understanding Music
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PERF-124 Music Theory I
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PERF-126 Musicianship I
Spring 2025
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M猫咪社区app-021 Private Instrument Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-022 Private Instrument Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-110 Understanding Music
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M猫咪社区app-110 Understanding Music
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M猫咪社区app-121 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-122 Private Instrument/Vocal Study: Composition
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M猫咪社区app-127 Musicianship II